Op do 27 feb 2025 om 19:37 schreef Michael Cook:
> > Sourceware is getting hit with a lot of abusive traffic and due to this
> > (or an unrelated reason) SSH connections are getting dropped after the
> > initial key exchange, before the actual data transfer starts.
>
> I'm curious... what kind of abusive traffic causes the ssh server to
> drop legit sessions?
> I've seen this kind of behavior from ssh servers before (dropping
> legit sessions early) but it never occurred to me that the server
> might be under attack.
>
Problem solved! The reason turned out to be that I was running a very
old version of pageant in combination with the latest version of
FileZilla. After upgrading to pageant version 0.83 everything works fine.
Conclusion: the "abusive traffic" was not the cause of the problem at all.
Thanks!
Jan Nijtmans
